Morphing electro-tecture into electro-art into
electromagnetic-
art to, say, emart or e-art or eart or ear-and-eye-art or
ear-
splitting-and-eye-stabbing-art, well, there is now an
electrifying new theory to quake solid-grounded reality of
all
arts:
The magazine "Sciences", published by the New York Academy
of
Sciences, has an astonishing article, in the
November/December
1994 issue, which postulates that mass is actually
electromagnetic force, so that there is nothing but electro
reality, nothing solid at all for art to paint or sculpt or
construct except electrical energy.
Mr. Carr, take an electro-bow.
The article has caused controversy in scientific circles,
especially among physicists, where it was first published in
the
highly respected "Physical Review A", only after an
extraordinary five peer reviews.
Here are quotes:
"There is no such thing as mass -- only electric charge and
energy, which together create the illusion of mass. The
physical universe is made up of massless charges immersed in
a
vast, energetic, all-pervasive electromagnetic field. It is
the
interaction of those charges and the electromagnetic field
that
creates the appearance of mass. In other words, the
magazine
you now hold in your hands is massless; properly understood,
it
is physically nothing more than a collection of electric
charges
embedded in a universal energetic electromagnetic field and
acted on by the field in such a way as to make you think the
magazine has the property of mass. Its apparent weight and
solidity arise from the interactions of charges and field.
"Besides recasting the prevailing view of mass, this idea
would
address one of the most profound problems of physics, the
riddle
of how gravity can be unified with the other three
fundamental
forces of nature. The electromagnetic force and the weak
force,
which is responsible for nuclear decay, have been shown to
be
two manifestations of a single force, appropriately called
the
electroweak force. There are tantalizing hints that the
strong
force, which binds nuclei together, will someday be unified
with
the electroweak force. But until now gravity has resisted
all
attempts at unification. If the new view is correct,
however,
gravity would not need to be separately unified. Just as
mass
would arise from the electromagnetic force, so would
gravity.
***
"If our ideas prove to be correct, they will point to
revisions
in the understanding of physics at the most fundamental
level.
Even if our approach based on stochastic electrodynamics
turns
out to be flawed, the idea that the vacuum is involved in
the
creation of inertia is bound to stay. Perhaps even bolder
than
the concepts themselves are their implications. If inertia
and
gravity are like other manifestations of electromagnetic
phenomena, it might someday be possible to manipulate them
by
advanced engineering techniques."
End quotes.
Authors of the article: Bernard Haisch, staff scientist at
the
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory and a fellow at the
Max-
Planck-Institut fur Extraterrestriche Physik in Garching,
Germany; Alfonso Rueda, professor of electrical engineering
at
California State University in Long Beach; and H. E. Putoff,
director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin,
Texas.
For a copy of this farily long article, titled "Beyond
E=mc(2)", send
me a blank message with subject: EMC2_too
For those interested in melding of science and art, take a
look
at "Sciences". It is one of the few journals I've seen that
mix
scientific articles with excellently reproduced art works to
the
advantage of both -- and not just display "artistic"
illustrations as subservient tools of "serious" science.
electromagnetic-
art to, say, emart or e-art or eart or ear-and-eye-art or
ear-
splitting-and-eye-stabbing-art, well, there is now an
electrifying new theory to quake solid-grounded reality of
all
arts:
The magazine "Sciences", published by the New York Academy
of
Sciences, has an astonishing article, in the
November/December
1994 issue, which postulates that mass is actually
electromagnetic force, so that there is nothing but electro
reality, nothing solid at all for art to paint or sculpt or
construct except electrical energy.
Mr. Carr, take an electro-bow.
The article has caused controversy in scientific circles,
especially among physicists, where it was first published in
the
highly respected "Physical Review A", only after an
extraordinary five peer reviews.
Here are quotes:
"There is no such thing as mass -- only electric charge and
energy, which together create the illusion of mass. The
physical universe is made up of massless charges immersed in
a
vast, energetic, all-pervasive electromagnetic field. It is
the
interaction of those charges and the electromagnetic field
that
creates the appearance of mass. In other words, the
magazine
you now hold in your hands is massless; properly understood,
it
is physically nothing more than a collection of electric
charges
embedded in a universal energetic electromagnetic field and
acted on by the field in such a way as to make you think the
magazine has the property of mass. Its apparent weight and
solidity arise from the interactions of charges and field.
"Besides recasting the prevailing view of mass, this idea
would
address one of the most profound problems of physics, the
riddle
of how gravity can be unified with the other three
fundamental
forces of nature. The electromagnetic force and the weak
force,
which is responsible for nuclear decay, have been shown to
be
two manifestations of a single force, appropriately called
the
electroweak force. There are tantalizing hints that the
strong
force, which binds nuclei together, will someday be unified
with
the electroweak force. But until now gravity has resisted
all
attempts at unification. If the new view is correct,
however,
gravity would not need to be separately unified. Just as
mass
would arise from the electromagnetic force, so would
gravity.
***
"If our ideas prove to be correct, they will point to
revisions
in the understanding of physics at the most fundamental
level.
Even if our approach based on stochastic electrodynamics
turns
out to be flawed, the idea that the vacuum is involved in
the
creation of inertia is bound to stay. Perhaps even bolder
than
the concepts themselves are their implications. If inertia
and
gravity are like other manifestations of electromagnetic
phenomena, it might someday be possible to manipulate them
by
advanced engineering techniques."
End quotes.
Authors of the article: Bernard Haisch, staff scientist at
the
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory and a fellow at the
Max-
Planck-Institut fur Extraterrestriche Physik in Garching,
Germany; Alfonso Rueda, professor of electrical engineering
at
California State University in Long Beach; and H. E. Putoff,
director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin,
Texas.
For a copy of this farily long article, titled "Beyond
E=mc(2)", send
me a blank message with subject: EMC2_too
For those interested in melding of science and art, take a
look
at "Sciences". It is one of the few journals I've seen that
mix
scientific articles with excellently reproduced art works to
the
advantage of both -- and not just display "artistic"
illustrations as subservient tools of "serious" science.